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Recycling to Survive in Sudan

By Jason Beaubien
Published May 28, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT
Workers at an airstrip in Rumbek, in South Sudan, hack apart the fuselage of an old transport plane with axes. Later the aluminum will be recycled into cooking pots.
Jason Beaubien, NPR
Workers at an airstrip in Rumbek, in South Sudan, hack apart the fuselage of an old transport plane with axes. Later the aluminum will be recycled into cooking pots.

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Jason Beaubien is NPR's Global Health and Development Correspondent on the Science Desk.
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